Rachel, Rachel Blu-ray Film Studies A slow burn character study

A slow burn character study

and essay by film historian and critic Philip Kemp

Classic supernatural drama adapted from a an Alexander Pushkin story which stars Anton Walbrook as an army officer obsessed with cards who goes to extreme measures to learn the secret of winning

Kids from a dysfunctional household seek escape from adults in the summer

Rachel, Rachel Blu-ray Film Studies A slow burn character study'Rachel, Rachel' Director: Paul Newman (1968) Starring Joanne Woodward Tender, affecting drama with a nuanced central performance. A schoolteacher who has lived a 'safe' life of repressed emotions but daydreams of something else for herself begins to let her barriers down.